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Content includes:
Bert Stern (Manuel Gasser)
Dick Elffers (Charles Rosner)
Container Corporation of America. ‘Great Ideas of Western Man’ Advertising by Inference (Georgine Oeri)
Early Days of Package Design (Alec Davis)
An Experiment in Window-Display (Charles Rosner)
The Museum of Primitive Art, New York (Robert Goldwater)
Poster Art between 1883 and 1918 (Dr. W. Rotzler)
Le Club du meilleur livre, Paris (Denys Chevalier)

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Graphis 74, 1957. Cover design by Bert Stern.
Graphis 74, 1957. Cover design by Bert Stern.

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Many influential British designers have made their names in the history books. Abram Games, Alan Fletcher, Tom Eckersley and Derek Birdsall, to name a few. But one designer that has always influenced me, not only as inspiration from their design output, but as an example of the role of a designer and the importance of having strong ethics, is Ken Garland. He is known for his innovative and socially responsible approach to graphic design and his involvement in the design community through his teaching, writing and activism. In the second instalment of this series, I will discuss Ken Garland's magazine work from my collection.

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After researching further into the work designed by their practice, I found ten programmes designed between 1958 and 1960. These programmes were designed for a variety of live jazz events in Germany and all followed the same format.

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Publimondial was founded André Roulleaux in 1942 and remained in circulation until 1960. The French journal was published by Art et Publications and was subtitled ‘The Magazine of Graphic Arts and Advertising Technique’.
Elizabeth Resnick is a Professor Emerita, former chairperson of the Graphic Design Department, and current part-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, Massachusetts, since 1977. She ran her own independent Boston design studio from 1973 to 1996, working with many high-profile clients and is a passionate design curator who has organized seven comprehensive design exhibitions. I interviewed Elizabeth about her journey in the field, her early influences and some of the many items in her collection.